Antoine Vignau reports a new game was released during Apple II Festival France 2015. I don’t speak or read French very well, but it appears to be an adventure game written by Benoit Triquet and René Speranza. The game is entitled “Nono et la pomme arc-en-ciel” or (apologies if I get this wrong) “Nono and […]
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Brian Fitzgerald grants release of source code to TAXMAN, Pac-Man clone
Rebecca Heineman has announced that she has been given permission to the release the source code to TAXMAN by the game’s programmer, Brian Fitzgerald.
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My First KansasFest – Ian Marks
During KansasFest, we asked 11 year old Ian Marks to write about his KansasFest experience. This was Ian’s first time attending the conference with his mother, Giselle Marks. The adults weren’t the only ones having a good time with their Apple II computers. This was my first year at K-Fest. I think that it has […]
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Open Apple #49 (July 2015) : Laine Nooney, Technowarp, 4am
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Laine Nooney, researcher of early computer and software companies. She has been digging into the history of such greats as Brøderbund and Sierra On-Line. In particular, she has done some awesome research on the infamous Soft Porn Adventure, including behind-the-scenes details on the infamous advertising photo. […]
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KansasFest featured on VICE Radio Motherboard
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Rebecca Heineman releases source for IIGS version of Space Ace -UPDATED
UPDATED POST: 07/30/15 I’ve converted all of the art for Space Ace into animated gifs and created Mac and PC based tools to convert the GIFs into Iigs format data. The tools are built against Burgerlib and the 65816 code is built with a modified version of a65816. Both Burgerlib and a65816 will be updated […]
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KansasFest 2015 Saturday Report
Saturday’s report is brought to you by third year attendee Mike Whalen. So, as I write this at 11:18pm on Saturday, July 18 2015. KansasFest is well and truly over. There no ifs, ands, or buts about it. It’s over, Johnny. It’s over! NUTHIN IS OVUH! YOU CAN RELIVE THUH DAY!! Well, okay, I suppose […]
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Retro Computing Roundtable episode 105 – KansasFest 2015 coverage
This episode features a special huge circle of podcasters around a single microphone at KansasFest 2015, where we reflect on KansasFest, relative merits of the Apple II, the CoCo, Atari 8-bits, and Commodores, and on the phenomenon that is KansasFest. We also make a couple of attempts at Carrington’s choose-your-own-adventure door decoration, and talk about […]